Saint Nedelya

Saint Nedelya
	Icon of Holy Week
Folklore	Slavic Mythology
Details	The embodiment of the day of the week - Sunday

Saint Nedelya (St. Sunday, St. Anastasia,^[1] in folk Orthodoxy of the Slavs is the personification of Sunday as day of the week.^[2] It is correlated with Saint Anastasia (in Bulgarians also with Saint Kyriakia.^[3] The veneration of the Week is associated with the prohibition of various kinds of work (cf. the origin of the Slavic week from not to do).

^ "Golubkova O. В. Female mythological images in the beliefs of the Eastern Slavs of Siberia". Archived from the original on 2015-09-24. Retrieved 2013-09-11.
^ Неделя (персонаж) / О. В. Белова // Славянские древности: Этнолингвистический словарь : в 5 т. / под общ. ред. Н. И. Толстого; Институт славяноведения РАН. — М. : Межд. отношения, 2004. — Т. 3: К (Круг) — П (Перепёлка). — С. 391–392. — ISBN 5-7133-1207-0
^ Folk Kultura na Balkanjiite. Scientific and ethnographic conference / Compiler and editor: Senior researcher Dr. Angel Goev. - Gabrovo: Architectural and Ethnographic Complex "Etar", 1996. - Vol. II. - 308 pp. (Bulgarian).

[1] "Golubkova O. В. Female mythological images in the beliefs of the Eastern Slavs of Siberia". Archived from the original on 2015-09-24. Retrieved 2013-09-11.

[неделя-2004a-2] Неделя (персонаж) / О. В. Белова // Славянские древности: Этнолингвистический словарь : в 5 т. / под общ. ред. Н. И. Толстого; Институт славяноведения РАН. — М. : Межд. отношения, 2004. — Т. 3: К (Круг) — П (Перепёлка). — С. 391–392. — ISBN 5-7133-1207-0

[3] Folk Kultura na Balkanjiite. Scientific and ethnographic conference / Compiler and editor: Senior researcher Dr. Angel Goev. - Gabrovo: Architectural and Ethnographic Complex "Etar", 1996. - Vol. II. - 308 pp. (Bulgarian).

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